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Show 124 "Change my opinion?" Gast repeated, looking startled. "I have not changed my opinion. I agreed with you all along. But when the citizens told me to play my music, I had to do as they said. I am a paid servant of Hamelin." "And yet...and yet...." Father Johann squinted uncertainly. "It was not dancing, alone, which cured the children in Bohemia. While the children there danced, their parents were inside church praying for God's assistance." "So you think...." "I believe that the children must dance while their parents are praying to God for a cure," Gast declared. "At the same time?" "Yes, Father Johann. That is how the children of Bohemia were cured." "It is too late today...but perhaps I could say another mass...." "Tomorrow will be soon enough." "Tomorrow...." The priest was growing excited. "Tomorrow is June 26, the feast day of Saints John and Paul, Roman martyrs. I could hold special services." "In Bohemia," Gast interrupted, "the people prayed from noon until three in the afternoon." "The hours when our Lord hung on the cross!" "And while they prayed the children danced through all the streets of the town." "Of course! I could instruct the people to come to church as they did on Saint Boniface Day...." |